The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-08-27
OHIO.
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE balloon for the Paris exhibition Of
1889 will carry up one hundred persons.
In 1865 the debt of the Government was
$7s.25 per capita. Now it is less than
319.S4.
THE irrigating ditch in Inyo County,
Cal, will be forty miles long when COM
pleted. H
THE Columbia river Gamers threaten to
defy the fish law and catch salmon in
August.
BANKER MoRosINr is negotiating for tho
purchase of Greystone, the late Mr.. Til.
denis home.
A CHINESE fishing junk at Vallejo, Cal,
has mile and quarter Of line carrying
$500 hooks.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has the rep
utation of being the handsomcst man in
the cabinet
"Miss CUMMINGS, Mr.. Goings," were the
names oddly linked in an introduction at
Buffalo the other day.
A WILMINGTON jeweler was slowly
poisoned TO death by the dye with which
he colored his whiskers.
A CINCINNATI policeman was robbed Of
his hat, club and badge, while asleep in
the park, the other evening.
The Washington Critic calculates that
half the present population of the United
States were born since the war.
LEVI PRossER, of Hartford. Conn.,, has
given 2OS-acre farm worth s65, 900 to be
used as an industrial school for homeless
children.
The customary legends about the raw
ages OF poisoned ice cream at summer
boarding houses continue to decorate the
depatches.
The largest orchard of fruit-bearing
trees in this country is claimed by Leaven-
worth, Kan, which has one that contains
$4,000 trees.
JAPAN keeps standing army of $4,000,
with 100000 reserves. They carry the
breechloader and drill more than any meB
in the world.
THREE of the candidates for Governor IN
Ohio are Methodists, namely: Foraker,
Republican; Powell, Democrat, and Sharp,
Prohibitionist.
The Sultan has been boycotted by the
ladies of his harem on account of his for
bidding them to bathe in the large marble
basin in the garden.
THE jackson, Mich, fire department is
now the possessor of a milk white rattle
snake, eighteen inches long, with pink
eyes and nine rattleS.
SPAIN has been for some time engaged
in making preparations for a celebration
of the four hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of America.
THE flame in prairie fire in Manhattan,
ILL.,, reached a height of twenty or thirty
feet at times, and the fire spread faster
than man could run.
The Duke De Morny travels with forty
seven trunks, and Berry Wall, king of the
New York dudes, who has only twenty
seven, is inconsolable.
BuTTERINE of such a fine texture" has
been made in England and has become so
popular that dairymen now want to call
their honest butter by the imitation name.
TRADE dollars will not be redeemed after |
September 3. If any remain after that |
date, they might as well be sent to the |
jewelers. to be melted into spoons.
PHILADELPHIA is making extensive pre-
parations for the celebration of the CEN
tennial anniversary of the birthday of the
Federal Constitution, in September.
''MY dear DOCTOR" said Krupp, the dying
gunmaker, to Bismarck's physician,
Schweninger, snake me live ten years
longer, and l will gladly give you mil
Iion."
Mrs. JOHN HUBERT, of Joliet Ill.,, frail
little woman of thirty-five, has slept more
or less soundly for two hundred and twen-
ty days. 1t is a remarkable case of cat
alepsy.
IT must be rather crushing to Buffalo
Bill to have the Empress Eugenie express
doubt as to whether she likes best the
Wild West show or the American Art Ex-
hibition.
The Signal Service now embraces 1So
stations, from which reports are made
daily, and employs about 400 men, ex-
elusive of couple hundred clerks in
Washington.
One lesson that the railway companies
may learn from the recent disaster at
Chatsworth is the folly of building wooden
bridges or trestling wherever iron, stone
or brick can possibly be secured
THE largest bunch of bananas on record
was shipped to Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 1t
measured four feet in length and weighed
-four hundred pounds. Some of the bananas
measured sixteen inches in length.
1T is estimated that more than S59, 900, 600
of paper money and bonds issued by the
United States Government have been lost
or destroyed so as to never be presented
for payment. Uncle Sam will be rich some
day.
Two RACES of men are dying out-the
Laplanders, who number 10000, and the
Maoris, of New Zealand, reduced from
100000 to $4,000 since the days of Captain
Cook, and likely to be extinct by the year
1000.
Sioux City, IA, is to have packing
houses with capacity of 0, 500 hogs day,
and Peoria, ILL.,, is getting ready to
slaughter 1900 day. There seems to be
unlimited faith in the hog crop of the
country.
THOSE who indulge in canned tomatoes
should take heed and not permit the vege.
table to remain in the can after being
opened. A serious case of poisoning from
that cause is reported from Fayette
County, Pa.
A GANG of murderers who are said to
have killed sixty persons during the past
two years have just been broken up at
Pierot, Servia. The miscreants are in
prison, and an official committee of in
Quiry has been sent to Pierot from Bel.
grade.
CHARLES TEGLER, q young man OF De.
troit, who took morphine with suicidal in
tent, was walked about and whipped with
wet towels and q barrel stave by the
hour as the only means of saving his
life. When Tegler gets over his bruises
he will probably not undertake suicide
again.